Amy Jarman and Victoria Kirsch to perform "At the Statue of Venus"

Event Soprano Amy Jarman and pianist Victoria Kirsch perform Jake Heggie’s operatic scene “At the Statue of Venus”with other mythology-inspired selections

When Friday, March 6, 2009 — 12:15–12:45 p.m.

Where Trinity Lutheran Church
1340 Eleventh Street, Manhattan Beach CA
(3 blks east of Sepulveda & 1 blk south of Manhattan Beach Blvd.)

Admission Free, donations appreciated.

“Lunch with the Artists” follows. Box lunches, with sandwiches made from special-order bakery bread and farmers-market-fresh produce, are available afterwards for $5 to enjoy at the Church with the artists or take back to the office.

For more information www.PalosVerdes.com/TLCMusic/TLCmbbl.htm

Background

A native Californian, Amy Jarman is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London. She has performed as a soloist with the Nashville Symphony, Louisville Bach Society, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony, Hancock Chamber Players, and Blair String Quartet. She has been a featured artist on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, Leeds International Concert Series, and St. James’ Piccadilly and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

In Southern California, Amy has been a featured soloist at the Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar. Her operatic roles with Nashville Opera include Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor and Mimi in La Bohème. Amy is a member of the voice faculty at the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee. in Los Angeles.
More about AmyJarman:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/faculty/faculty_voice.html#jarman

Victoria Kirsch maintains a varied professional schedule that includes international performing, work with major and regional opera companies, including Los Angeles Opera, extensive audition playing (including Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition in 2000 and 2004 and, until 2003, the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions). In 1998, she began collaboration with Julia Migenes (Carmen in the1984 film with Plácido Domingo) on the celebrated soprano’s one-woman show, Diva on the Verge, which the two have presented to acclaim worldwide. She is currently a popular teaching artist for LA Opera’s Education and Community Programs Department and pianist and music director of the Los Angeles-based Operetta Foundation. As a recent NEA Chairman’s Grant recipient, she is currently co-creating a show based on the writings of Emily Dickinson.